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Somehow I had never heard of Julie Otsuka’s novel When the Emperor Was Divine. It was, in a word, lovely. Otsuka writes prose infused with poetry. Her unnamed protagonists, who are innocent victims caught in…

I picked up Purge at the Academic Bookstore (Akateeminen Kirjakauppa) in Helsinki, Finland. This wasn’t the first time I’d heard of Sofi Oksanen’s book — I’d also had it recommended to me by the clerk in…

Jewell Parker Rhodes’ novel of famed Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau read like a typical historical novel…at first. But then, well, it diverged from the regular feel of the historical novel genre and took its own…